R2: Ethnic Diversity in Acceptance Of Disability, Community Integration Needs, Barriers, and Supports
Project Update
We began enrolling participants in this study in May, 2004. To date, we have enrolled 118 persons with TBI and we have conducted 67 in-home interviews. We have met with people from a variety of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Meeting with persons with TBI in their homes to discuss their perspective of the impact of the injury and their perception of barriers and supports has been a wonderful learning experience to date. In addition to administering standard questionnaires, we are asking qualitative questions and tape recording each person's responses, so that we will be able to capture the full experience of participants. We have found that people have been most comfortable and open when being interviewed in their own homes, and we are able to get a better idea of what their community looks like. We are close to achieving our target number of 153 participants in the study. In the next year, we hope to have preliminary data to report on the experience of living with a TBI, community integration, barriers, and supports for persons in different ethnic groups.
